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“Let the match begin!”
A large creature the size of a grizzly bear stepped out of the cage, but it was no grizzly bear, but rather a monster made entirely of stone.
“Five hundred coppers on the silver-ranked monster destroying the boy!”
People cheered and took up the bets.
Max snickered. The audience really wanted him to die, huh?
He didn’t care.
He was just psyched to be finally facing a higher-ranked monster.
Here we go, he thought.
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Max didn’t waste any time.
He stretched out his arm and triggered slice.
The golden blade of energy emerged in front of him and shot forward at the rock golem.
The crowd booed at that.
They were sick of Max decimating monsters with a single slice move. It was boring and made worse by the fact that they kept betting against him and losing more and more money.
But Max didn’t care. He wanted the silver monster core more than anything else.
He also had learned from his mistake with the mushroom monster. He couldn’t give the monster even a second of a chance to unleash a move against him.
The slice attack shot across the ring towards the massive rock golem.
The creature quickly pivoted and the energy blade went right through the creature’s arm rather than the center of it where Max had been aiming for.
The rock golem’s right arm fell to the floor.
“I hate this kid!” someone moaned.
“Kill him rock golem!” cheered another.
Max didn’t understand why they hadn’t tried to change their bets at the last minute in his favor. If they bet on him, they might actually win some money. They still seemed quite confident in the powers of the rock golem though.
What did they know that Max didn’t?
The rock golem crouched down and picked up its fallen arm.
The crowd cheered at the rock golem’s actions.
Max tried to figure out what was going on.
Was the rock golem going to throw the fallen arm at him as a projectile? Or swing it as a melee weapon? What the heck was this rock golem doing?
The monster did none of the things Max was expecting.
Instead, the monster shoved its arm back into its shoulder socket like it had never been detached.
The crowd cheered with more rage now than ever.
“Weren’t expecting that were you punk! The rock golem’s going to kill you now!”
Damn.
One of the rock golem’s abilities allowed it to rebuild itself.
That, however, didn’t make the rock golem invincible. It just meant Max had to be more cunning with his slice attack. He had only two more good shots left—after that, he’d have to spend the rest of the fight dodging until it was safe again to use his trait once more. He was sure the staff members wouldn’t like that and the gamblers would throw a riot.